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Pioneers of Science

by: Oliver Lodge

Publication date: 2010-08-31

Usage: Public Domain

Topics: librivox, audiobooks, science, astronomy, history of astronomy, astronomers

Language: English

Item Size: 1.4G

Librivox recording of Pioneers of Science by Oliver Lodge.
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This book takes its origin in a course of lectures on the history and progress of Astronomy arranged for Sir Oliver Lodge in the year 1887. The first part of this book is devoted to the biographies and discoveries of well known astronomers like Copernicus, Brahe, Kepler, Galileo and Newton. In the second part, the biographies take a back seat, while scientific discoveries are discussed more extensively, like the discovery of Asteroids and Neptune, a treatise on the tides and others. (Summary by Ava)

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00 Preface

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01 Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth

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02 Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory

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03 Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion

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04 Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the telescope

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05 Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition

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06 Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices

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07 Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton

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08 Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation

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09 Lecture IX: Newton's

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10 Lecture X: Roemer & Bradley and the Velocity of Light

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11 Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis

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12 Lecture XII: Herschel and The Motion of the Fixed Stars

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13 Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods

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14 Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets

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15 Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune

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16 Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors

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17 Lecture XVII: The Tides

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18 Lecture XVIII: The Tides, and Planetary Evolution

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01 Lecture I: Copernicus and the Motion of the Earth

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02 Lecture II: Tycho Brahe and the Earliest Observatory

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03 Lecture III: Kepler and the Laws of Planetary Motion

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04 Lecture IV: Galileo and the Invention of the telescope

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05 Lecture V: Galileo and the Inquisition

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06 Lecture VI: Descartes and his Theory of Vortices

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07 Lecture VII: Sir Isaac Newton

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08 Lecture VIII: Newton and the Law of Gravitation

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09 Lecture IX: Newton's "Principia"

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10 Lecture X: Roemer & Bradley and the Velocity of Light

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11 Lecture XI: Lagrange and Laplace - The Stability of the Solar System, and the Nebular Hypothesis

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12 Lecture XII: Herschel and The Motion of the Fixed Stars

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13 Lecture XIII: The Discovery of the Asteriods

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14 Lecture XIV: Bessel - The Distance of the Stars, and the Discovery of Stellar Planets

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15 Lecture XV: The Discovery of Neptune

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16 Lecture XVI: Comets and Meteors

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17 Lecture XVII: The Tides

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